We propose AI-Lyricist: a system to generate novel yet meaningful lyrics given a required
vocabulary and a MIDI file as inputs. This task involves multiple challenges, including …

Although purely instrumental music is commonplace, much of the world's most popular
music is sung with lyrics. However, it is evident that listeners don't always attend to lyrics and …

Speaking and singing are mechanisms of vocal production that have distinct articulatory
properties and consequently produce sounds that are normally perceived as different …

This article explores the relationship between linguistic tone and musical melody in Tommo
So, a Dogon language of Mali. Most fundamentally, contrary map**s (rising tone on falling …

We propose a system for modifying spoken notifications in a manner that is sensitive to the
music a user is listening to. Spoken notifications provide convenient access to rich …

Singing is universal, and understanding sung words is thought to be important for many
listeners' enjoyment of vocal and choral music. However, this is not a trivial task, and sung …

An objective machine-driven measure of song intelligibility would be of great utility for
various music information retrieval tasks. Song intelligibility mostly depends on two factors …

Note-to-note changes in brightness are able to influence the perception of interval size.
Changes that are congruent with pitch tend to expand interval size, whereas changes that …

Sign languages exhibit the drive for ease of articulation found in spoken languages,
particularly in fast and casual conversation, where the methods that reduce effort are shown …

The speech-to-song (STS) illusion is a phenomenon in which some spoken utterances
perceptually transform to song after repetition [Deutsch, Henthorn, and Lapidis (2011). J …